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🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave

Lapa do Santo

Early Holocene (c.12000–8000 BCE) Lagoa Santa Paleoindian · Lagoa Santa Paleoindian (Luzia horizon)

Lapa do Santo is a Lower Karst limestone rockshelter at Mocambeiro, northern Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, at 730 m.

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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Cave

Jeita Cave

Middle Palaeolithic to present (c.80,000 BP–modern) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Holocene

Keserwan 9 km karst system (Mousterian–Aurignacian, 5 m speleothems) on Nahr al-Kalb gorge.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Cave

Verteba Cave

Chalcolithic Trypillia BI–C1 (4100–3500 BCE) Podolia cave sanctuary · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Podolia cave sanctuary phase, Bilche-Zolote variant)

Verteba Cave (Peștera Verteba) — gypsum karst cave sanctuary (Cucuteni-Trypillia CI 4100–3500 BCE, 9 km passages) at Bilche-Zolote, Podolia, Ukraine's largest Trypillia cave site.